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Potter: Unknown
Fritware, coated in a whtie glaze painted in blue, turquoise and black
Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a thick white, slightly crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in black.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with slightly out-turned, collared rim sitting on a foot ring
Interior: blue dentilated pattern painted on the rim under which a band of blue calligraphy is interspersed with turquoise and black contoured fillers, all enclosed within two blue concentric lines. On the body, a blue linear geometric pattern, imitating a book cover, contains black or black and turquoise fillers.
Exterior: a blue line is painted on the rim. On the upper body, a band of black Arabic script (cursive) is painted. Glaze runs unevenly over the foot ring. Glaze also present on the underside of the foot ring
History note: Frank Brangwyn RA, from whom purchased
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 8.3 cm
Weight: 397 g
Width: 20.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank
12th Century, Late-13th Century, Early#
Circa
1180
CE
-
1219
CE
Exterior Body
composed of
pigment
( black)
Interior
composed of
pigment
( blue and turquoise (in-glaze), black (overglaze))
glaze
( white, crazed)
Exterior
composed of
glaze
( white, crazed, runs unevenly over the foot ring, also present on the underside of the foot ring)
Rim
Diameter 20.9 cm
Base
Diameter 8.1 cm
Throwing : Fritware, wheel thrown, coated in a thick white, slightly crazed glaze painted in the glaze in blue and turquoise and over the glaze in black
Inscription present: band of calligraphy
Inscription present: rectangular paper label with serrated edge around bottom and right hand edge
Accession number: C.132-1935
Primary reference Number: 71812
Old accession number: 4-1935
Old object number: G.ADD 59
Old number: BP.42
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71812 Accessed: 2024-12-28 20:14:01
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71812
|title=Bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-28 20:14:01|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-71812
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